The boys had cached the wireless apparatus and the
other gear, to be called for at some more opportune time. To their
great regret, also, they had had to leave some of the ivory behind
them. But the majority of what they did not dare trust to the
gas-bag they carried in the chassis. Luckily for them there was
hardly a breath of wind and the novel carrier towed well.
As the occupants of the great aeroplane gazed back at the sinister
Moon Mountains as they fast faded out--they saw silhouetted against
the evening sky a dark figure.
It was recognized at once as one of the beaten gorillas scouting to
see if the terrible white men had really gone.
"There's the man we saw this afternoon," laughed, Frank, as with
rapidly beating propellers the Golden Eagle II winged her way with
the convoy toward the River Camp.
CHAPTER XIV
AN ESCAPE--AND WHAT CAME OF IT
From the pace at which Muley-Hassan's band traversed the jungle
paths it was evident to the two young captives that there was
imperative need in Muley-Hassan's mind of arriving somewhere at a
set time. The usual noonday rest, which even the avaricious
slave-trader was in the habit of taking, was not observed and the
travelers pressed straight on. Lathrop and Billy were almost ready
to drop with fatigue when that evening, just at dusk, they arrived
at the bank of a muddy river which Muley-Hassan, impatient as he was
to proceed, decided it would be unwise to ford till daylight--when
they could look for a good crossing place.
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